MUSIC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: African Art, Art Music, African Nationalism
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Historical and cultural perspecives: art music is generally characterized as a contemplaive music. Thus, although african tradiional music has a uilitarian- rather than contemplaive- funcion; however, other contemplaive types" had existed in precolonial tradiional music and coninue to exist today. However the rice of a neo-african, or modern african art music is directly related to the aciviies of. The advent of art music in africa began with the arrival of missionaries in the coninent in the nineteenth century. The missionaries came to africa with their music, culture, religion, and social values, which they efecively conferred on africans. Factors that facilitated the assimilaion of western music in the 19th century: the colonizaion, the systemaic denunciaion of african tradiional music, the spread of chrisianity by the missionaries. In addiion to the sacred music types, various kinds of secular types of modern composiion also emerged and developed as art music.
